Federal sub-agency · Department of Defense

Missile Defense Agency

Missile Defense Agency obligated $8.5B on federal contracts in FY2026 across 5,888 contract actions (+7.8% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was RAYTHEON COMPANY ($1.8B). It also awarded $2,221 in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$8.5B
Actions
5,888
New awards: 2,590
Sole-source
35%
Small business
7.7%
Open in the contracts explorerRelationship graphFederal contracts

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 4.4BFY2017
  2. 7BFY2018
  3. 8.3BFY2019
  4. 9.4BFY2020
  5. 8.1BFY2021
  6. 8.5BFY2022
  7. 6.6BFY2023
  8. 7BFY2024
  9. 7.9BFY2025
  10. 8.5BFY2026

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. RAYTHEON COMPANY$1.8B21%
  2. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$1.4B17%
  3. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$1.4B16%
  4. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP$596M7.0%
  5. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$529.4M6.2%
  6. RAYTHEON COMPANY$438.2M5.2%
  7. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$426.4M5.0%
  8. AMENTUM TECHNOLOGY, INC.$253.9M3.0%
  9. THE BOEING COMPANY$217.7M2.6%
  10. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$215.7M2.5%

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$2.8B33%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$2.4B28%
  3. Equipment maintenance$1.7B20%
  4. Professional services$887.9M10%
  5. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$523.5M6.2%
  6. IT & telecom$114.2M1.3%
  7. Transportation & logistics$46.5M0.5%
  8. Facilities & utilities$31.3M0.4%
  9. Construction & real property$22.9M0.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. Alabama$3B35%
  2. Arizona$1.7B20%
  3. New Jersey$1.4B17%
  4. California$626.3M7.4%
  5. Massachusetts$446.7M5.3%
  6. Texas$427.1M5.0%
  7. Colorado$292.9M3.4%
  8. Maryland$190.1M2.2%
  9. Virginia$145.9M1.7%
  10. North Carolina$33.7M0.4%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition36%
    US 39% · $3.1B
  • Sole-source awards35%
    US 30% · $3B
  • Single-offer competitions1.7%
    US 8.7% · $144.8M
  • Urgency justifications0.1%
    US 5.1% · $5.3M
  • Year-end rush0.0%
    US 6.0% · $0
  • Undefinitized contracts0.0%
    US 5.0% · $500
  • Time-and-materials pricing0.0%
    US 4.2% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Offices with the most sole-source money

  1. MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA)$1.4B96%
  2. MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA)$793.1M25%
  3. MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA)$344M73%
  4. MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA)$251.4M84%
  5. MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA)$111.3M5.2%

Largest awards

  1. HQ0147-17-C-0032 UNDEFINITIZED CONTRACT ACTION (UCA) FOR THAAD INTERCEPTOR LOT 9 PRODUCTION - QTY OF 23$10.4B
    LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION· Dallas County, TX· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 27, 2017 – Jun 3, 2026· HQ014717C0032
  2. THE MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA), GROUND-BASED MIDCOURSE DEFENSE (GMD) DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINMENT CONTRACT (DSC) THE GMD DSC WORK INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO: 1) FUTURE DEVELOPMENT; 2) FIELDING; 3) TEST; 4) SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, INTEGRATION AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; 5) EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING AND REFURBISHMENT; 6) TRAINING; AND 7) OPERATIONS AND SUSTAINMENT SUPPORT FOR THE GMD WEAPON SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SUPPORT FACILITIES.$6.5B
    THE BOEING COMPANY· Madison County, AL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Oct 4, 2016 – Nov 13, 2025· HQ014712C0004
  3. THAAD COMPONENTS FOR FIRE UNITS$5.8B
    LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP· Santa Clara County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Oct 4, 2016 – Apr 16, 2026· HQ014707C0196
  4. DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEVELOPMENTAL TESTING OF THE NEXT GENERATION INTERCEPTOR (NGI) ALL-UP-ROUND (AUR)$5.5B
    LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Mar 24, 2021 – Jun 11, 2026· HQ085621C0001
  5. GBI/AUR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT/SYSTEMS ENG$4.4B
    THE BOEING COMPANY· Madison County, AL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 18, 2019 – May 11, 2026· HQ014719C0004
  6. AEGIS BMD INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT$3B
    LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION· Burlington County, NJ· Research & development· Oct 3, 2016 – May 28, 2026· HQ027610C0001
  7. KSA FMS ARMY NAVY TRANSPORTABLE RADAR SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL MODEL 2 (AN/TPY-2) PRODUCTION$2.7B
    RAYTHEON COMPANY· Middlesex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 26, 2020 – Mar 5, 2026· HQ086220C0002
  8. NEXT GENERATION MISSILE DEFENSE RADAR$1.6B
    RAYTHEON COMPANY· Pima County, AZ· Other equipment & supplies· May 5, 2026 – Jun 12, 2026· HQ085126FE029

Federal grants & assistance awarded

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Missile Defense Agency obligated $2,221 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (0 new awards). Its largest program was 11.620 · Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach ($2,221).

Assistance · FY2026
$2,221
New awards
0
Actions
1
Since FY2024
$44.4K

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 42.2KFY2024
  2. -103.3FY2025
  3. 2.2KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$2,221100%

Top programs

  1. 11.620 · Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach$2,221100%

Top recipients (organizations)

  1. ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY$2,221100%
    MONTGOMERY, AL

Where it went

  1. Alabama$2,221100%

By state of the place of performance.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Federal grants & assistance

Subawards under this agency's awards

First-tier subawards that recipients of this agency's contracts and financial assistance reported, by the fiscal year of the subaward.

FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $105.8M (434 subawards)

205 sub-recipients

Largest sub-recipients

  1. MATERION BRUSH INC$26M25%
    ELMORE, OH · 1 subaward
  2. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$7.6M7.2%
    WOODLAND HILLS, CA · 3 subawards
  3. AEROJET ROCKETDYNE INC$6.9M6.6%
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward
  4. VIGOR WORKS LLC$6M5.7%
    CLACKAMAS, OR · 2 subawards
  5. EPOCH CONCEPTS LLC$5.9M5.6%
    LITTLETON, CO · 10 subawards
  6. COLOSSAL CONTRACTING LLC$5.4M5.1%
    ANNAPOLIS, MD · 16 subawards
  7. CHEW ENGINEERING INC$4.3M4.0%
    SEYMOUR, MO · 2 subawards
  8. PIFINITY, INC.$4M3.8%
    ARLINGTON, VA · 4 subawards
  9. WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY LLC$3.8M3.6%
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 4 subawards
  10. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$3.3M3.1%
    CHANDLER, AZ · 1 subaward

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Who lobbies this agency

Organizations whose quarterly lobbying reports list this agency as contacted, ranked by the reports' spending. A report's amount covers all its issues and every agency it lists; reports do not split it.

Lobbying in 2026
$0
Clients
2
Reports
2

The whole amount of every report that lists this agency.

Organizations lobbying it, 2026

  1. CASTELIONAI match · 99%$0
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense
  2. SHEYENE TECHNOLOGY INC$0
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Committees that oversee and fund it

Congressional committees whose jurisdiction includes this agency, and the appropriations subcommittees that write its spending bill (Analisa's reading of the House and Senate rules; committees share jurisdiction). Leaders as currently published.

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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.